Delabere Geoffrey Torlesse PRITCHETT [1789]

  General Notes:

New Zealand Casualties
Wounded.
Canterbury Battalion
Pritchett Delabere G, 6/1960, Pte. (Rev P H Pritchett, Mount Somers, Canterbury, father); chest.
Evening Post 25 August 1915.

Delabere Geoffrey Pritchett
Birth Date: 1 Sep 1894
Birth Place: Hokitika, Westland, West Coast, New Zealand
Enlistment Date: 7 Jan 1914
Service Number: WW1 6/1960

Wounded Aug 7 - 9 1915
Canterbury Battalion.
Pritchett, Delabere G., Private : 6-1960. (chest), (Rev. P. H. Pritchett, Mount Somers, Canterbury, father)
ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, VOLUME XXXV, ISSUE 8226, 25 AUGUST 1915

The Rev. P. H. Pritchett, of Mount Somers, has received a letter from his son, Private D. G. Torlesse Pritchett, who was wounded on August 7, written on August 12. The letter runs: This is just a line or two to let you know where I am, and how I am. I have had the misfortune to be hit by a few Turkish bullets, but I am thankful to say that I am not seriously wounded, so do not be alarmed. I have been hit in the two arms, and the bone of one forearm is fractured. It is between the elbow, and the wrist that I have had in both arms. I have also slight wounds, one on the chest and the other just above the knee. I am writing this letter in the hospital ship Dongola, which is going to Alexandria. I am very comfortable and well looked after. I shall be put into hospital at Alexandria on arrival there to-morrow, and shall be ready for service again before long.
The letter was written by the Rev. Father Rees, who was one of the English missionaries who came to New Zealand, and is chaplain in the Dongola; It is the first communication his parents have had as to Private Pritchett's whereabouts since he was wounded seven weeks ago.
ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, VOLUME XXXV, ISSUE 8258, 1 OCTOBER 1915

Mr. Delabere Pritchett, eldest son of the Rev,, Percy Pritchett, vicar of Mt. Somers, Canterbury, left by the Maheno, en route for England, to obtain, further medical advice. Mr. Pritchett returned lately to New Zealand invalided from the front, having, in addition, to other wounds, had both arms broken.
DOMINION, VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2682, 31 JANUARY 1916

Delabare finally lost his leg from these injuries, amputated in 1937 when the shrapnel broke through into his artery, the same week that his son Paul was born.
Mrs Pat Pritchett 2023

Delabere Geoffrey Torlesse Pritchett
Marriage Year: 1927
Marriage Place: New Zealand
Spouse: Yolande Voss Ferrier
Relation: Bridegroom
Folio Number: 6033

Pritchett Delabere Geoffrey Torlesse Mt Hutt RD farmer
New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1935
Mid-Canterbury.

Methven Farmers Union.
At the annual meeting of the Methven branch of the Farmers Union, D G Pritchett was elected to the Committee.
Christchurch Press 19 March 1937

Birth Date: 1 Sep 1895
Death Date: 17 Mar 1972
Cemetery: St Cuthbert's Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Governors Bay, Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand
Father: Percy Hugh Pritchett
Mother: Lizzie Henrietta Pritchett
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem...

Delabere married Yolande Voss FERRIER [23634] [MRIN: 8479] on 22 Sep 1927 in New Zealand. (Yolande Voss FERRIER [23634] was born in 1894 and died in 1985 in Christchurch N Z.)